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Shai Ginsburg

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708-0414
Office hours By Appointment  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Literature, Classroom, War Games - ACLA Annual Meeting · March 20, 2016 Lecture Harvard University, Boston Mass.
Dan Miron: Late Poetics and Politics - A Conference in Honor of Dan Miron’s 80th Birthday · December 30, 2014 Lecture Beth Shalom Aleichem, Tel Aviv
Rhetoric and Nation: The Formation of Hebrew National Culture, 1880-1990 · November 3, 2014 Other Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Europe and Israel: Baruch Kurzweil and Modern Hebrew Literature - Hebrew Literature: Self-Reflection and History · May 13, 2014 Lecture Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Literature, Polity, and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict · March 10, 2014 Invited Talk Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University,
Theory and Hebrew Literary Criticism · December 27, 2013 Lecture The Critic, Graduate Students Study Group, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem in the Poetry of Uri Tsvi Grinberg · December 25, 2013 Lecture The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Philosophy and Divine Violence - AJS Annual Conference · December 16, 2013 Lecture Boston
No Country for Heroes - A Look from the Inside, a Look from the Outside: The Hero—The Second International Conference on Israeli Documentary Cinema · July 8, 2013 Lecture Mishekenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem
Israeli Cinema: Jewish, European, Christian · June 13, 2012 Lecture Bar-Ilan University. Ramat Gan, Israel.
Now and then: History reimagined/unimagined · March 5, 2012 Lecture
Arabesques Facing the Bookcase · November 24, 2011 Lecture The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The State, the Holocaust and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict: Steven Spielberg and the changing American vision · December 15, 2010 Lecture The American Studies Institute (ASI) of Seoul National University
All Quiet Flows the Jordan: Hebrew War Literature and Russian Literature, 1942-1960 · June 2, 2010 Lecture The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Novel and City: Ya’akov Shabtai’s Past Continuous · May 26, 2010 Lecture Scholion - Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anton Shammas, Language of Grace and Broken Vessel · March 19, 2010 Lecture University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
What’s in the Name? Derrida’s Specters of Marx · February 21, 2010 Lecture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
War and Peace in Israel · February 15, 2009 Lecture Tulane University, New Orleans

Service to the Profession


Participant - Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism · January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement,